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Test to Treat: Pharmacists say Biden’s major new COVID initiative won’t work
Mar 18, 2022 05:15US administration's program to facilitate access to antivirals will have a limited impact because American pharmacists are restricted from prescribing the pills.
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Flood of Ukrainian refugees: Shadow of ‘crisis of century’ over EU
Mar 17, 2022 10:26The Europeans, as longtime allies of the United States who have played a significant role in the Ukraine crisis through their actions and stances, now find themselves facing a large population of Ukrainians. They have to give shelter to the displaced Ukrainians despite domestic economic problems and the coronavirus pandemic.
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Assange denied permission to appeal extradition
Mar 17, 2022 09:51Julian Assange, the publisher of WikiLeaks, has been denied his petition to appeal the High Court’s decision to extradite him to the United States, where he faces up to 175 years in prison for publishing U.S. state secrets that revealed evidence of American war crimes.
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Biden's sanctions on Afghanistan could kill more civilians than two decades of war
Mar 13, 2022 07:1222.8 million Afghans—more than half the population—are facing acute food insecurity. Lift Biden administration's hold on billions of Central Bank reserves.
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Keys to Iran’s national strength
Mar 13, 2022 07:00Despite the illegal US sanctions, or more properly intense economic terrorism, the Iranian people with their patience, resilience, and spirit of sacrifice have made the plots of their enemies go awry, to the extent that they are models of emulation for the masses and the independent governments of the region and beyond, which seek the Islamic Republic’s positive influence, to the chagrin of the US and its surrogates.
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Is super-polluting Pentagon’s climate plan just ‘military-grade greenwash’?
Mar 12, 2022 14:23US officials claim the military aims for net zero by 2050 but with a carbon footprint greater than some 140 countries critics say it needs radical change.
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The tragic US exit from Afghanistan was rooted in decades of failure
Mar 12, 2022 14:16An important new Atlantic piece on the trauma of the withdrawal should be put in the wider context of American incompetence.
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Supreme Court says torture at CIA black site is a “state secret”
Mar 11, 2022 16:13Abu Zubaydah, whom the CIA once mistakenly alleged was a top al-Qaeda leader, was waterboarded more than 80 times, subjected to assault and exposed to live burials in coffins for hundreds of hours.
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Florida vaccine plan for children denounced as ‘irresponsible and reckless’
Mar 10, 2022 12:22In a pronouncement which stunned experts on Monday Feb. 07, Florida’s controversial Surgeon General Dr Joseph Ladapo said the state would be the first to “recommend against” COVID-19 vaccination for “healthy children”.
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Study shows COVID-19 infection linked to brain shrinkage, cognitive decline
Mar 10, 2022 12:16A new study published in the journal Nature shows an association between brain size and structure among those infected by the COVID-19 virus.